单词 | new negro |
释义 | New Negron. U.S. Now historical. 1. A black African brought as a slave to the New World. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black jong1615 servant1643 New Negro1701 salt-water Negro1708 boy1796 blackbird1853 intelligent contraband1861 contraband1862 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 32 In Barbados..new Negro's i.e. such as cannot speak English..are bought for twelve or fourteen pound a head. 1732 Calendar State Papers Amer. & W. Indies (1939) 55 Except proof were made that they were all new negroes and not been above 6 months in America. 1821 M. Graham Jrnl. 31 Dec. in Captain's Wife (1993) 52 On either side are magazines of new slaves..and there the wretched creatures are subject to all the miseries of a new negro's life. 1860 S. Mordecai Virginia (ed. 2) 350 I do not speak of the New Negroes, as the imported Africans were called, but of their descendants. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson iii. 50 The new Negros gave Roxy no trouble, of course. 1984 New Yorker 14 May 63/1 On the slave plantations there, constantly replenished with ‘new Negroes’ (as they were called) from places like the Ivory Coast, poison had been one of the special terrors of slaves. 2. In form New Negro. A member of any of various movements working for black rights; spec. an artist involved in the New Negro Movement (see Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > advocacy of black rights or interests > one who > black person New Negro1922 society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of modernist1703 symbolist1812 romanticist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 symbolizer1854 archaist1867 realist1868 verist1884 naturalist1888 naturist1892 Teutonist1894 veritist1894 literary theorist1896 neoclassicist1899 social realist1909 futurist1911 postmodernist1914 vorticist1914 postmodern1917 Scythian1923 surrealist1925 populist1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1946 New Negro1953 formalist1955 pre-modernist1962 Scyth1972 dirty realist1987 po-mo1996 1922 A. P. Randolph in Messenger Oct. 500/1 It does not occur to the Old South that there is a ‘New Negro’; that the ‘Uncle Toms’ are passing. 1925 A. Locke in Survey (N.Y.) Graphic No., 1 Mar. 632/1 The Negro is being carefully studied, not just talked about and discussed. In arts and letters, instead of being wholly caricatured, he is being seriously portrayed and painted. To all of this the New Negro is keenly responsive as an augury of a new democracy in American culture. 1953 S. A. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 43/2 She wouldn't let anybody kick her around (something like the New Negro). 1963 in J. H. Clarke Harlem (1964) 49 Many of the New Negroes were unwilling victims of an inverted racialistic nationalism,..priding themselves that they could sing, paint and write as well as their white-skinned patrons. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 929/2 Southern white liberals..were thrown off balance by the assertiveness of the ‘New Negro’. Compounds New Negro Movement n. the flourishing of black writing, music, and culture that took place in the 1920s; cf. Harlem Renaissance n. at Harlem n. Additions. ΚΠ 1953 S. A. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 40/1 We go then to what is called the New Negro Movement. 1963 in J. H. Clarke Harlem (1964) 40 For a racial dilemma in Negro art, a racial solution was necessary. This came in the mid-twenties from the inspiration of the New Negro Movement with its crusade of folk expression in all of the arts. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 33/1 This period also saw renewed interest in the New Negro Movement of the 1920s, with the rediscovery of black women writers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1701 |
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